Jamaica's sprint star Yohan Blake, who is in the city promote the Road Safety World Series, a T20 tourney to be held in February next year, did not want to miss his training in preparation for next year’s Tokyo Olympics and headed to the nearby University Sports Pavilion in Marine Lines on Tuesday morning. But the facilities at the iconic track and field facility left him shocked. While he was glad to surprise a bunch of young athletes participating at the Sports For All (SFA) athletics event, he criticised the synthetic track.

“These kids look really good. This is such a good initiative, but the track is bad. Kids will get hurt here. We have better tracks than this in Jamaica. You people should do something about it,” said Blake, 29, who has won two Olympic gold and two silver medals.